Patty Takawira

Yeah.

And I don't know if you remember, Stan, but we didn't just work together.

You actually hired me.

And now that I'm thinking about it, Clarence was the first person I really met with.

in my role at MDH.

Yeah.

I went to Southside and we, we connected around the, the CVH grant, the Clippers and Curls grant.

Yeah.

Wow.

Right.

So,

From a public health perspective, we're trying to approach dementia in a more upstream way.

and this research is relatively new, but 45% of dementia risk factors are potentially modifiable.

And that research keeps growing and expanding.

So that's like a relatively new concept that this, you know, there's something people can do to potentially influence the trajectory.

It's not necessarily just faded.

So communicating that is one of the biggest challenges

pieces of our work right now and what we've found and are realizing more and more every day that is that the way that we need to do that is with strong partnerships with community partners who can who can engage trusted messengers to communicate that so that's

That's one of the areas.

Another area is promoting earlier detection and diagnosis.